Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) (2023-2024)

[flint wigeon]

yess

and my interests are so disparate as well

[eternal jasper]

it does but i can't resist the urge

[pliant hemlock]

yeah. especially at schools like MIT or stanford

[flint wigeon]

if I do double major it would be in like biochem and linguistics 💀💀💀

[eternal jasper]

i want to do physics and aerospace engineering, which isn't too terribly different, but still fairly different

[hollow sedge]

my mit ec list reflects my not-connected interests 🤡

[eternal jasper]

that goes hard

I put linguistics as my second uchicago major lmfao

[west widget]

econ + EECS

[hollow sedge]

research, graphic design/event logistics for a2c, volunteering for cultural org, and graphic designer for esports org

[flint wigeon]

I ❤️ linguistics

[eternal jasper]

yeah my ecs for mit were kind of all over the place too

thankfully mit is cool and they have a second section for jobs

[pliant hemlock]

bro i hate MIT 4ec system. Mightave screwed myself over. I mean I also did submit my app at 11:59, who knows how many errors are on there.

I wished they used common app like everyone else 😭

[hollow sedge]

something i found as i went further into reading papers is how a lot of science is connected

[eternal jasper]

lmao

did you do rd?

[modern lava]

I'm so thankful for the 4 ECs lmao

My EC list be tiny fr

[pliant hemlock]

yeah

[hollow sedge]

like how chem and physics join together in battery design

or when the matrix stuff i learned in linalg shows up in ML research im reading

[eternal jasper]

i love when two fields intersect

[pliant hemlock]

fr

[flint wigeon]

fr fr

[eternal jasper]

the masculine urge to double major just to specialize in a highly specific area

[hollow sedge]

its cool when stuff thats formerly separated by classroom walls and schedule blocks suddenly converge

[flint wigeon]

that would go fire in an essay lmao

[eternal jasper]

essays

[hollow sedge]

i considered writing about that for the "diverse world" essay but i pivoted it to something else

will talk about it in my interview if i get to it

[eternal jasper]

i'm so glad i never have to write a college admissions essay ever again

omg i loved my mit interview

[pliant hemlock]

I wrote something similar for my uchicago essay

[pliant hemlock]

shoot gotta prepare for mine

[eternal jasper]

my interviewer was an anthropology major and we talked about the most random stuff for two hours lmao

[pliant hemlock]

😭 oh no. Im lowkey socially awkward

[hollow sedge]

since app deadline is past i guess ill say what i wrote for diverse world essay

most of my extended family lives in china, and the only way we can communicate is wechat. when politics wanted to ban wechat i was conflicted because i recognized the national security issues but i also wanted to keep in touch with relatives like my friends can (like idk driving up i-75 over thanksgiving to see their grandparents)

[west widget]

dude mine too

[hollow sedge]

my interviewer is a meche prof at my DE/research/esports org college

he might be retired idk

[west widget]

mine is an analyst at draft kings

[pliant hemlock]

mines a business and engineering major

[eternal jasper]

eh chances are your interviewer might be a little too

just nerd out

my interviewer literally whipped out a book about the history of hacks at mit, opened to a page, and pointed to his name 🥶

bro was a piece of histroy

[hollow sedge]

wtf theres a book of mit hacks?

what class year was your interviewer

[eternal jasper]

yeah it's called nightwork: a history of hacks at mit or something like that

[eternal jasper]

mine was class of '87

[hollow sedge]

oh close to mine

interesting

i think mit and tamu are connected in a lot of ways
my interviewer, an mit prof that lived in the college town & did research here, and also similar "hacks"

there used to be a trend

students hated the veo rentable bicycles

and put them in stupid spots

dangling off buildings, stuck in trees, and on top of the academic (admin) building

[west widget]

mine was class of 06

[hollow sedge]

misplaced veo bike gallery

[eternal jasper]

lmao

the massive pile

[west widget]

veo does bikes?

[eternal jasper]

students trespassing and risking expulsion just for le epic prank

that's so good

[hollow sedge]

gives off mit hack vibes

[pliant hemlock]

ngl im just gonna wing my interview

exept for the why MIT stuff

need to have that somewhat memorized for the specifics

[frozen karma]

i messed that one up

i said a lot of undergraduate programs for research, which is hella generic and not good enough

i also said cuz mit embraces being a nerd, which is probably bad too

and i said mit has extreme stem rigor, which i will do well in

i think all 3 reasons are trash

[pliant hemlock]

☠️

[hollow sedge]

I don't think that's necessarily bad

[pliant hemlock]

I mean I was gonna say that aswell

now you got me worried

[hollow sedge]

Nerd culture + more motivated undergrads lol

[west widget]

i ended up saying course 15 integration with sloan school

and because MIT focuses on bring in good people...

people who you'd want to room with

people who you'd want to hang out wiht

and most importantly be in an academic environment with

[pliant hemlock]

Interview time. here we go.

[rugged drift]

pretty sure it's for everyone who applies

both ea and rd

[rugged drift]

it is supposed to release mid-january

so any day now

[eternal jasper]

i want to hear about it when ur done

[hollow sedge]

interview in 17 minutes qwertyuiop

[pliant hemlock]

ah shit man

☠️

it was going so well

and then for one of my questions

I was like "so I know youre a nigerian how does MIT's community..."

then he was like

"wait how do you know I am"

so I told him I looked him up

that led to an awkward 30 seconds

Then he made me wrote a 1 paragraph essay in real time on how I was going to change the world with my experience at MIT

[coarse fjord]

💀

[eternal jasper]

this is the weird part lmao

i think everyone looks up their interviewer

i just didn't say anything about it

[pliant hemlock]

I think he thought I was weird for that lol

[pliant hemlock]

autocrrect didnt pull through ill tell you that

it made "My" to "Mr."

im fucked

i was sweatin balls throughout that 1 minute he gave me

💀

he wouldve made me solve an AIME question too I bet

I got a headache

stressfull ass interview

like no way I just got pop quized on writting

[eternal jasper]

that's such a weird thing to ask tho

like i wonder if he's including what you wrote in his report

[pliant hemlock]

oh fuck

[eternal jasper]

but also interviews don't have much weight, like at all

so don't stress

[pliant hemlock]

bro the interview was supposed to save me dawg☠️

[eternal jasper]

my interviewer literally said that he's said explicitly that certain students are the best he's ever interviewed and they've all been rejected

a great interview (probably) wont save you, a bad interview (probably) won't hurt you

as long as you weren't giving off red flags left and right, i think you'll be fine

[coarse fjord]

mine was pretty bad and i still got in

dw

i also hoped the interview would save me LOL

[pliant hemlock]

https://tenor.com/view/speed-run5-gif-19781023

me tryna crank 2 sentences in 15 seconds

[eternal jasper]

i'd say that my interview was great, i still got deferred tho

i don't think the interview can be anyone's saving grace

[coarse fjord]

dude ur interviewer making u write a paragraph is crazy

[pliant hemlock]

this is what I wrote-
If my eyes are the windows to my soul, then my hands are the doors to Mr. Creativity, their birthplace in my uncle's technology workshop back in Cameroon. There, He would craft various things to help the village people, from custom respirators to heart monitors. From watching him, helping people has become my cornerstone. If I'm admitted to MIT, I'll strive to assist the community using my skills as an engineer. I'll do things like help sustain MIT's campus by building trashpicking robots and collaborating with the environmental club. Beyond sustainability, I can help other clubs like the film club by designing custom cameras or the ultimate frisbee club by coding up a new algorithm to track freebees. I want to help people in every way I can. In the future, I'll go back to Cameron and Use my skills to help out communities with life-changing technology. MIT will give me the skills to do so.

yes theres errors in there

hella errors

[eternal jasper]

did he make you type it on your phone?

[pliant hemlock]

nah that woulda been batshit

[eternal jasper]

and did he time you and everything?

[pliant hemlock]

he was like. take a minute

and every so often hed ask if im done

[eternal jasper]

that's crazy

well since you had a weird interviewer, maybe he wrote some exceptional stuff about you lol

[pliant hemlock]

☠️

no way thats how it works

[eternal jasper]

yeah idk lol

just be glad that it's done, and don't stress because you can't change anything

[hollow sedge]

the mit interview complete

[pliant hemlock]

"how did you know I was nigerian!" thats gonna haunt me until march 14th

[hollow sedge]

we talked about sleep deprivation for like 4 mins 💀

the work-social life-sleep triangle

[eternal jasper]

this is kind of hilarious tho ngl

just laugh about it

[pliant hemlock]

yall are having good ass interviews

I got the finals test MIT preview

[eternal jasper]

bruh my interviewer talked to me about he wanted to teach his children klingon but his wife said no

[hollow sedge]

my questions were the following

1. tell me about your family
2. what did you do in school
3. what did you do outside of school
4. why mit
5. any other questions

[pliant hemlock]

bruh

mine were

[hollow sedge]

i can see my fellow classmates getting interviewed and its spooking me

[pliant hemlock]

1. tell me about yourself
2. what was your sat score(subscores)
3. what was your gpa (had to explain grades)
4. what do you do in school
5. what do you do for your community
6. the essay thing
7. what are you proud about
8. any other questions

[eternal jasper]

damn he really asked for your stats 💀

[hollow sedge]

some interviewers do that

[pliant hemlock]

no cause he asked for my resume too

[eternal jasper]

really? that seems weird to me

[hollow sedge]

if the guy after me gets in will be upset
because once i was wearing a tuxedo (with everyone else for orchestra concert) but i didnt do the topmost button because it was too tight
and after refusing his offer to fix it, he proceeded to tell all the girls in the room that "you can judge the quality of a man by the way he dresses"

like wtf

[pliant hemlock]

yours was live?

[hollow sedge]

live on skype

[pliant hemlock]

oh

[hollow sedge]

but i can see who interviews before/after me

[eternal jasper]

is there like a line of kids at your school getting interviewed lol

[hollow sedge]

no its like a skype groupcall

[eternal jasper]

oh that's interesting

[pliant hemlock]

good thing he didnt ask me about each of my AP scores

[outer hollow]

part of me wants an interview but at the same time some of ur experiences were pretty weird it seems lol

[eternal jasper]

well if you get one go for it but if you don't no sweat

[pliant hemlock]

ik mit isnt test optional but imagine if it was and your interviewer asks you for your tests scores. If you tell them you dont wanna say them cause you applied TO you may be cooked. Lose lose situation unless you have a high score.

[pliant hemlock]

still do one fr

[outer hollow]

yeah no if i get it ima do it

[pliant hemlock]

I think mine was a very weird one

[outer hollow]

i doubt i will get one tho cuz of my location, maybe ill have one over zoom

[eternal jasper]

mit is still the only college interview i've had

[hollow sedge]

Oh yeah they also asked what my passions and hobbies were

[eternal jasper]

i have my princeton one next week and i'm kind of terrified tho because bro is intimidating

[pliant hemlock]

I have stanford and harvard one next week

[hollow sedge]

Passions I said creating things and getting people together
Hobbies I said cello and tennis

[pliant hemlock]

I said mines were competative programming,math competitions and moderate gaming

😭

[outer hollow]

ayy tennis

[hollow sedge]

oh yeah i also said video games for hobbies lol

[eternal jasper]

i told my interviewer i played the cello and he said that he did too but he switched to bass because he was too tall lol

[hollow sedge]

i also play the cello

im kinda mediocre though because i dont practice that much lol

[pliant hemlock]

used to play cello

and trumpet

[hollow sedge]

kentucky all-state orchestra, and texas all-region full orchestra

[outer hollow]

i played oboe freshman year and i was pretty decent but i quit cuz i hated marching band

[eternal jasper]

good choice

[outer hollow]

im glad i quit cuz it was a huge time commitment and i was able to do other stuff i like more

[pliant hemlock]

If I look on the bright side maybe my interviewer thought I had such a good shot he gave me a preview of the MIT experience by popquizing me there and then 😁

no way I got a raging headache from an interview

[hollow sedge]

like a lot of mit students my interviewer knew, i choose social life and work, and sacrifice sleep

[pliant hemlock]

I got the authentic MIT experience fr

[eternal jasper]

sleep is for the week

party is for the weekend

🤠

[pliant hemlock]

I used to say that but now I hallucinate so much I start seeing what im gonna do 3 seconds into the future

highkey need more sleep 💀

[hollow sedge]

what

[eternal jasper]

lmao

[hollow sedge]

the worst ive gotten to is falling asleep in class

[eternal jasper]

i've never been close to falling asleep in class lol

[pliant hemlock]

In class I was writing an essay and had to go to bathroom so raised my hand but that was just me dreaming but I actually was writing that essay and had to go to the bathroom so I did raise my hand. real time de ja vu

[hollow sedge]

wtf youre like in inception

[eternal jasper]

try this during a test so then you can know the answer before you read the question

[pliant hemlock]

💀

Now I have to make a full physics simulation for robotics in 6 hours.

Man I'm tired

[modern lava]

My MIT interviewer was unsearchable 💀

I also evidently didn't read the bottom of her email too which at least included her major, Course 11 (Urban Planning)

So I went in blind to that info too 😭

Luckily that led to a pretty natural discussion about urban planning

And then there's my Penn interviewer who literally put his LinkedIn in his interview email

[hollow sedge]

my interviewer had a tight schedule based on how he explcitly set aside a 30 minute time slot and how there was someone right after me

[pliant hemlock]

mine was 30 mins late

[candid wave]

bro mine too 😭

[pliant hemlock]

Mine was quite famous

Internationally

[turbid barn]

Mine didn’t rlly seem like there was a set list of questions

[river sky]

surprised you guys didnt argue over jollof 💀

i heard nigeria and cameroon have serious beef over jollof rice

[turbid barn]

She told me the interview doesn’t rlly matter too much, they also don’t know anything about you beforehand

It’s mostly just if there’s anything abt you not in the application, and just learning more about you as a person

So if you can’t hold up a conversation or say why you want to go that would probably hurt you a lot whereas a rlly good answer doesn’t boost you too much in that sense

[pliant hemlock]

☠️ ay man it all taste the same to me. I never understood the food arguements.

[river sky]

thats fair, india also got flame wars over biryani

[atomic vapor]

bro my interviewer had a website and the interview was 2hr 💀

[cobalt sun]

did anyone have their mit interview yet?

how was it and what kind of questions did they ask

[pliant hemlock]

mine was insane

but its not the norm

[cobalt sun]

wdym by insane

[pliant hemlock]

mine gave me a whole headache after

had to take tylenol

out of nowhere my interviewer gave me a minute to write a short essay on how id change the world and how MIT would help me.

[cobalt sun]

bro what

[pliant hemlock]

but I had the norm questions aswell like why MIT, tell me about yourself

[cobalt sun]

mit just different ig

[pliant hemlock]

I was sweating balls

made so many grammar errors

[cobalt sun]

yeah ofc i mean thats kinda nerve wracking

do u have any suggestions

on what to prepare

or how

i have mine tmr

[pliant hemlock]

dont make a script of things to say

just make a sticky note of things you want to mention

\it should be like a convo that flows

make some bullet points on why mit

make some bullet points on things you want to mention about yourself

thats pretty much it

evverything else should come to you

like "what do you do for fun" or "what do you do at schook"

[cobalt sun]

alright tysm!

thats very helpful

btw how long was your interview approx

[pliant hemlock]

yeah trying to remember a script leads to alot of stuttering and blanking out

mine was about 45 mins

nvm

it was an hour or so

[pliant hemlock]

my mom is talking like I already got into Harvard, stany,MIT💀. shes like we have to talk about which one youd chose when you get in

bruh I hope I do. She works 3 jobs. One time she even worked 4. need her to know her hard work wasnt for nothing.

[hollow sedge]

this is why i never use scripts when giving presentations

too forced

[pliant hemlock]

yup

[cursive canyon]

i had my interview on friday and i got a pretty nice interviewer compared to what ive been hearing online, she asked the basic questions like why mit, what do you want to study, and asked a bunch of follow up questions about the things i said, i probably overprepared because most of my interview was follow up questions that i didnt need to think too hard about, and it was an hour long

[junior heath]

my mit interviewer linked his website

[cobalt sun]

yeah this is more of what I expected

ty

[ionic spindle]

Jesus fucking christ, I found my interviewers resume....

[junior heath]

uh oh

this isnt sounding good

[hollow sedge]

imagine you get the same interviewer for different schools

[ionic spindle]

Bro has an honors section on his resume

and a publications section that is like 3 pages long

[hollow sedge]

long publications sections dont sound that usual

unless theyre all first author

[eternal jasper]

this would be so funny actually

[ionic spindle]

Given he has 6 best paper awards in his honors

He might have good reason for including them

I did not realize my interviewer was an academic weapon I thought he was a normal dude when I talked to him

[eternal jasper]

maybe it's good you didn't know before your interview lol

[ionic spindle]

I did not realize my interviewer was an academic weapon I thought he was a normal dude when I talked to him

[eternal jasper]

that's why i'm kind of terrified for my princeton interview

dude is the dean of a whole ass college ☠️

[pliant hemlock]

bros winning

[junior heath]

dude what

[ionic spindle]

bro won admissions 3 times

[vale swallow]

when does FUN come out?

[brittle glacier]

i think its pretty soon

[flint wigeon]

mid jan

im guessing sometime in the next week?

[vale swallow]

Yeah I still haven't gotten my checklist yet so I'd expect it after that comes out.

[heavy badger]

was looking thru the server and saw this msg - just wanted to say that's me and my friend:D (we're both from Penang)

[flint wigeon]

omg congrats!

[heavy badger]

thanku!!

[tardy pulsar]

Damn W

[hollow frost]

was i supposed to get an interview

[eternal jasper]

it's based on availability, so you might but you might not

[modern lava]

Just leaving this here
https://rgabriel.scripts.mit.edu/cursed.htm

[pliant hemlock]

intresting

[eternal jasper]

pin this plz

[eternal jasper]

lets goo

[cedar hornet]

what the fuck?

[modern lava]

This is on MIT's actual website soooooooooo

[eternal jasper]

no way

[modern lava]

.edu

[hollow sedge]

of course tim is a courses 6 student 💀

[ember star]

IM DYING

this is so funny

[junior heath]

https://cms.mit.edu/wp/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/477814762-Ben-Silverman-Fursonas-Furries-Community-and-Identity-Online.pdf

[modern lava]

Puppypaws30

[pliant hemlock]

assuming I get into harvard paulson but not MIT id basically still get to take most MIT classes no? lol

close enough🙏

[river sky]

"assuming i get into harvard" is a wild ass statement

but for the most part yeah

[pliant hemlock]

How's It wild

[cedar hornet]

i’m harvard auto admit

i donated 15 trillion

[autumn bison]

TRUE

[oak shore]

Have interviews for MIT already come out

And how do I check if my country even has alumni

[pliant hemlock]

Idk if that's a thing you do 💀

Low-key doxing

But yeah thever already come out

Probably harder if you're an international

[indigo sparrow]

:(

No interview for me ig

[oak shore]

Yea I am NOT getting in

W wasted 75 bucks

[pliant hemlock]

💀

They don't mean anything

I think

[oak shore]

not getting one is bad

i am in some obscure country tho

but idk i got one from harvard so id see why mit wouldnt also have an alumni

[pliant hemlock]

You're good

[hard shard]

i didn’t get an interview from MIT but at the same time they still don’t have a rec from one of my teachers 😭

[pliant hemlock]

☠️

[oak shore]

what

isnt that like

[hard shard]

she physically mails them in

[oak shore]

real bad

💀

i think they received everything from me on time except the fin aid stuff

[pliant hemlock]

Got MIT one 3 days after applying-- Harvard and Stanford later. since it was that quick idk if they fr read my app that fast

[oak shore]

ur US?

[pliant hemlock]

Yeah

[oak shore]

im in fucking panama

💀

[pliant hemlock]

Ah

[oak shore]

not the US one

the country

💀

[pliant hemlock]

Granted I live in the northeast

[oak shore]

i got one from harvard like

jan 8?

stanford i got it for rea (didnt get in)

and yale hasnt sent anything yet

[pliant hemlock]

Same

[oak shore]

same with jhu

if i dont get into any of my unis idk what im gonna do

[pliant hemlock]

Lol we might have applied to the same colleges

[oak shore]

did u get anything from jhu

[pliant hemlock]

Nah

[oak shore]

this plus UK

[pliant hemlock]

I think my friend did tho. He works at the NIH so he already has ties

Idk if jhu makes a big deal outa interviews like other top colleges

[oak shore]

jhu is prob best for my major

applying international+wants money is asking for rejection everywhere except some of the need blind places

[pliant hemlock]

Ah, for me.
MIT,Harvard, Yale,Cornell,uppen,Stanford, umich,umd,CMU,uchicago,Georgia tech,and some safetys

[hard shard]

i highly doubt MIT only does one round of interviews though?

[pliant hemlock]

I mean their decision date is fairly early compared to others

[hard shard]

well let’s hope they get my rec letter 🙏

princeton did, harvard still hadn’t but i got an interview???? idk weirdest app round ever

[oak shore]

i was gonna do cornell but i saw that damn essay

💀

[pliant hemlock]

Y'all think they'd still let me in if I completely bombed a supplemental?💀

[oak shore]

and thought im not wasting my evening on this

[pliant hemlock]

Applied Ed but was rejected

[oak shore]

bro im still praying they let me in if i bombed all 5

you will be fine

💀

stanford was a plain rejection so im so demotivated for all the other apps

[pliant hemlock]

No like I actually bombed one and it's jaring. I accidentally used the same sentence that was in the first paragraph and the second.

[oak shore]

😭

[pliant hemlock]

I was rushing it at 11:59

[oak shore]

oh shit i also applied to nyu i forgot

[pliant hemlock]

More accurately 11:55

[oak shore]

the srar is a pain in the ass

[stoic frost]

interview advice?

[pliant hemlock]

Gonna get rejected so hard. Hopefully stanny and Harvard pull through

[flint wigeon]

Idts

[green oyster]

how do you even prep to apply to MIT (please im desperate and need advice and help)

[autumn bison]

i think the best thing you can do realistically is win the International Math Olympiad

that aside it's the same thing as usual:
you can do good work on your grades, study hard, write like a real human that has real interests and flares of passion for life, and demonstrate those loves you have in your extracurricular activities

[eternal jasper]

live your life doing things that are meaningful to you, not what you think mit wants

[autumn bison]

there's nothing in particular that will make MIT nut as opposed to other colleges

other than the IMO

.

[eternal jasper]

or just get super lucky

[autumn bison]

however, if you're not competing in the IMO now

[eternal jasper]

or hack the admissions office to get in

[autumn bison]

i somehow suspect you may not be winning it by the time your turn at the execution block rolls around

so go be a real human fr

ofc this is all really easy to say

"find your passion" motherfucker i'm 16/17 what the fuck

if it helps though, i have a small story of my own

i started tutoring refugees when i was in sophomore year bc it would look good on college apps & there's a req for graduation at my school

i thought it would b eraw ass

imagine unironically tutoring children for 2 hours straight on a weekday evening 1 hour away from your house

💀

tutoring? more like torturing please get me out

i did it a shit ton

long story short my students there are fucking goated

they're really bright and interesting people

i've made and laughed over some of my worst puns at my community service site

and as soon as this damn swimming season is over i'm going the fuck back as soon as i physically possibly can because i love doing it

that kinda shit.

[green oyster]

oh wow

aight i feel you

ill see if i can find smth like that lol

[eternal jasper]

just don't stress about it

the one piece of advice is to actually do something

[coarse fjord]

yeah i agree with joren

[eternal jasper]

don't waste away in your room, just do something that you like a lot

[autumn bison]

try doing things

if you hvae no clue what you like doing

throw yourself at a bunch of shit

it's a little late for the college apps things i wont lie

if you're still figuring that out

but honestly like

lol if you have no clue what you're doing rn you're fucked anyway might as well figure out who you are

[coarse fjord]

tbf all my awards/honors are from 11th/12th

[autumn bison]

💀

[green oyster]

lmao

[eternal jasper]

same

[autumn bison]

like if i'm being dead honest

[eternal jasper]

and i have two awards lmfao

[coarse fjord]

like 50% of my actiivties were from 11th/12th

[eternal jasper]

and one is national merit

[autumn bison]

if you have NO clue what you're trying to do for college admissions

[gusty siren]

anyone participated in the congressional app challenge this year

[autumn bison]

and you're more than halfway through junior year

🥶

[green oyster]

nah like for the typical app i have everything besides research and passion project checked off

[eternal jasper]

so maybe awards will help but idk lmao

[autumn bison]

ah

[green oyster]

its just idk what awards to aim for and stuff

[gusty siren]

they still haven’t updated me on my results 💀

[autumn bison]

i mean

[coarse fjord]

i did not have a passion project so ur ahead alr

[autumn bison]

r u doing ECs rn

that ur reasonably good at

[green oyster]

just generally what to do in general

uhm i mean

i just have a bunch of leadership positions

nothing too impactful or impressive

[eternal jasper]

whatever you want

[coarse fjord]

no sorry :(

[autumn bison]

bro going for a dictatorship major

i respect it

[eternal jasper]

if your school has academic teams, you can try those

if you like sports try hard at that

[green oyster]

im in 3 😭

[autumn bison]

wtf

do u like them

[green oyster]

only rly the physics and engineering ones

[autumn bison]

alr ball the fuck out on them then

🔥🔥🔥🫡🫡

[coarse fjord]

uhh i did some olympiads in my junior year

[green oyster]

🫡

[autumn bison]

chase them down hungrily bro

[coarse fjord]

i didnt do particularly good but it's an option

[eternal jasper]

you could try to get an internship at a company for engineering if you're into that

that's what i did

[autumn bison]

^

don't like competition? look for research, real-world opportunities, etc.

[green oyster]

did you get past the first round for any of them (i haven't yet lol)

[eternal jasper]

and it doesn't need to be fuckin google or something like that

[autumn bison]

like bashing other students' skulls in? look to olympiads, competitions, etc.

[gusty siren]

should i try to get a tech internship at the fed bank 💀

[eternal jasper]

just a local company or something

[coarse fjord]

yes

but honestly first round isnt terribly difficult

[autumn bison]

no balls

[eternal jasper]

if you want lol

i could never

[gusty siren]

theyre offering it to sophomores

[autumn bison]

honestly a lot of this stuff is like

no balls

just try that shit

[gusty siren]

at least the boston branch

[coarse fjord]

it sounds cool

[autumn bison]

if it doesn't work what have you lost

[coarse fjord]

u should do it if ur interested

[autumn bison]

like maybe 3 hours of application time 💀

[gusty siren]

I did one at dana farber last summer it was depressing

[autumn bison]

gg

[coarse fjord]

i also didnt start studying until like summer before 11th if that gives u hope

i didnt know they existed LOL

[autumn bison]

me starting studying winter senior year

https://tenor.com/bim3h.gif

we making it out the hood in this usnco shit

[eternal jasper]

real

[green oyster]

was there a website you used to find them?

[coarse fjord]

future chem camper

[gusty siren]

i looked at the first question on the usaco and gave up

💀

[coarse fjord]

aka remember me when ur famous

[autumn bison]

what the FUCK is a zumdahl

i can only do basic stoichiometry

:gladge:

[eternal jasper]

i actually was able to do it through my school district, and they had a list of local companies that were willing to host interns

[green oyster]

lol same i didn't look into these until like sept lmao

[coarse fjord]

ur good dw

[eternal jasper]

you could try asking your school district if they have something like that

[autumn bison]

bro i only knew math olympiads existed until like

this year

lmfao

[eternal jasper]

or ask seniors you know

[green oyster]

ye thats fair

[autumn bison]

ok that's a lie i heard about usabo like mid-end of junior year

[coarse fjord]

i cant help u with other ones but hmu for chem bio and medicine

[green oyster]

if i may ask what major did you apply for

[autumn bison]

but lowkey like

apply for pure math or you are doomed irl,

not biased,

[eternal jasper]

lmao

i applied aerospace engineering

[autumn bison]

based

[eternal jasper]

deferred tho

[green oyster]

lmao welp im going into BME or EE so its a little ggs for me

[autumn bison]

average mathematics destroyer

[coarse fjord]

joren remember me when ur an astronaut

[coarse fjord]

nah u got this

[autumn bison]

"this vector makes no sense what if i just slapped a negative sign on it"
"why? that's mathematically incorrect"
"by the fundamental theorem of shut the fuck up it works"

[eternal jasper]

i will 🫡

[gusty siren]

do u guys think my experiment on the effect of microgravity on plant growth will even get past class science fair 😭

[coarse fjord]

i was gonna apply bme but then i was like what do engineers even do

[autumn bison]

is it well-done?

[eternal jasper]

lmao

idk what they do either

they make engines or smth

i forgor

[autumn bison]

they commit numerous violations against mathematicians

[coarse fjord]

LOL

[versed imp]

be ridiculed by sheldon on big bang, duh

[green oyster]

BME does like med tech or druggy delivery stuff

[coarse fjord]

dawg im currently rewatching no way

[green oyster]

like how to make the zaza hit harder

[eternal jasper]

pi = 3 and you cannot convince me otherwise

[autumn bison]

something something e = 2 pi = 3 e = pi 2 = 3

[gusty siren]

ummm I guess so its not really like super super world breaking but like i 3d printed the stuff and used arduino and stuff idk

[autumn bison]

i mean if that shit is good

ball out on it keep going

💀

[coarse fjord]

wait

bro is a sophomore

that's crazy

ahead of the game

[green oyster]

fr

[gusty siren]

you guys gotta try this dumpling place in cambridge

[green oyster]

bro locked in hella early

[gusty siren]

when you guys come

[coarse fjord]

omg what is it

[gusty siren]

its good good

[coarse fjord]

im going to mit next week

[gusty siren]

dumpling xuan

they got good soup dumplings

[coarse fjord]

are u chinese

[gusty siren]

take a sip of the charles river

while you’re there

[versed imp]

istg all the sweats ik at my school are sophomores 😭

[gusty siren]

yes

[versed imp]

our grade's lazy af compared to em

[green oyster]

https://dumplingxuan.com/index.html

[coarse fjord]

YOO MY FELLOW YELLOW

[green oyster]

😩

OMG ANOTHER FELLOW YELLOW

[gusty siren]

welcome to the yellow gang at boston 🫡

[autumn bison]

💀

are we all asian

[coarse fjord]

aka u cannot be saying anything

ur fake asian

[autumn bison]

bro

[green oyster]

LMAO

[autumn bison]

i am korean

[coarse fjord]

can u speak korean tho

[green oyster]

yep we're all asian

its ggs

[eternal jasper]

fellow yellow is crazy

[autumn bison]

i know how to tell people their mothers are dead

🤨

[coarse fjord]

that doesnt count

[gusty siren]

@coarse fjord You need any good food places around boston lmk 😭

[coarse fjord]

omg ok

[green oyster]

早上好中国

[autumn bison]

gg....

[eternal jasper]

what does this mean

[autumn bison]

maybe i am a fraud then

[autumn bison]

you learn it by flaming in league ngl

that's all i can say

[coarse fjord]

bro dumpling xuan looks so buss

holy

DAWG

[green oyster]

yo wait guys for engineering

[coarse fjord]

WHY IS 6 DUMPLINGS $10 ???

[green oyster]

did ygs do any passion project or anything

[coarse fjord]

I CANT AFFORD THIS

WTF

[autumn bison]

why not

[gusty siren]

Its boston

💀

[autumn bison]

no i am a fraud

i did nothing

[coarse fjord]

WTF

[eternal jasper]

i didn't

[autumn bison]

all 4 years i just went to school

[coarse fjord]

im gonna go broke wtffff

[autumn bison]

came home

[gusty siren]

Boston is expensive af

[autumn bison]

played video games from like 7 pm to 4 am

repeated

this is not a joke

[eternal jasper]

i don't have enough knowledge or materials to do a passion project tbh

[coarse fjord]

what even is a passion project

i never got it

[autumn bison]

idk my ass has 0 ECs

[coarse fjord]

i think they're a myth

[autumn bison]

if i get in it will be one of the greatest heists of all time

[eternal jasper]

they prob are

[green oyster]

its like theres this EC that i rly love doing so i grinded the fuck outta it

[autumn bison]

stole a spot from an actual candidate

😂

[eternal jasper]

so real

[green oyster]

but its like in engineering 💀

cant do shit

[autumn bison]

realistically im going to malcom x community college

[coarse fjord]

what the hell bro im gonna be homeless in boston if everything is this expensive

[green oyster]

nah u get college cafeteria food

[eternal jasper]

yummy

[gusty siren]

what state you from if you dont mind 😭

[coarse fjord]

texas

💀

[gusty siren]

Oh yeah

Gl fr

💀

[green oyster]

bro MIT's tuition is literally a muggery in broad daylight tho

83k per year is insane

[eternal jasper]

true

[coarse fjord]

but i live in like an CA level expensive part of texas

[gusty siren]

doesnt mit give out good aid

[eternal jasper]

they do

they should make it better tbh

[green oyster]

UCs r still cheaper tho 🤣

[coarse fjord]

sounds legit

[green oyster]

ye idk what passion project to do

[eternal jasper]

not for out of state

i could not apply to a single uc lmao

[green oyster]

fair

[gusty siren]

Boston is honestly so mid

cambridge is alr they got a micro center so ill give it to them

[green oyster]

LMAO

[autumn bison]

lmfao based

[coarse fjord]

what is a micro center

[green oyster]

electronics shop

[gusty siren]

its like best buy

[coarse fjord]

me with UT austin

[eternal jasper]

ah

[green oyster]

its got crazy deals

[coarse fjord]

12k is actually my saving grace

[gusty siren]

but more not pre built?

[coarse fjord]

u guys r nerds (joking)

[eternal jasper]

bruh i wish i lived in texas for the ut austin autoadmit

[coarse fjord]

yawn

[gusty siren]

basically they sell a lot of parts for electronics ig

[green oyster]

at crazy deals

i pulled a top class cpu for only 150

[coarse fjord]

it's actually so nice

like im super grateful

[gusty siren]

they didnt give me a deal when i got my 3d printer

[green oyster]

oh :C

[gusty siren]

didnt even give me my free usb when i signed up

for their member thing

[green oyster]

oh!

[gusty siren]

💀

[eternal jasper]

L company

[coarse fjord]

u got scammed

why didnt u bargain like a true chinese kid

[gusty siren]

um

[green oyster]

^

[gusty siren]

i dont do things like that 💀

its so awkward

[autumn bison]

hello my fellow "fake asian"

[gusty siren]

do yall actually bargain

[autumn bison]

welcome to the annex of the fellow yellow house

[gusty siren]

I dont got the gut for that

[green oyster]

hassling is an integral part of being an asian

[coarse fjord]

not in the states unless like flea markets

[autumn bison]

bro haggling is so fucking scary

[eternal jasper]

depends on what your buying

[coarse fjord]

but asking for deals i get yeah i do

[hollow sedge]

You aren't automatically admitted to your major

[eternal jasper]

imagine haggling groceries

[gusty siren]

Ill do it on facebook marketplace

but in person is wild

[autumn bison]

it has to be done

some of that shit costs so much man

[eternal jasper]

oh i didn't know that

[coarse fjord]

true but if you're good enough it's basically in the bag

[autumn bison]

wait what

[coarse fjord]

like im sure joren would get his major

[autumn bison]

so what are you admitted to then

🤨

[coarse fjord]

UT in general

[green oyster]

wait wen what r u applying for

what major

[autumn bison]

so like

[coarse fjord]

biochem

or chem

[hollow sedge]

If you want to do liberal arts, yes autoadmit is basically guaranteed major
Otherwise, you still have to do holistic review

[coarse fjord]

if they dont have it

[autumn bison]

oh ok

[green oyster]

shoulda gone chem engineering fr

[coarse fjord]

hater

[green oyster]

jk!

[gusty siren]

why is there no snow

[eternal jasper]

biochemical engineering

[gusty siren]

climate change is wild

[coarse fjord]

hater

[eternal jasper]

no

[eternal jasper]

there is snow

just look out my window smh

[gusty siren]

not where I live

[green oyster]

i live in CA i haven't gotten snow in my lifetime

[eternal jasper]

that actually sucks

i love snow

[gusty siren]

like we’re known for snow

where is it 🤨

[eternal jasper]

sorry i ated it all 🥶

[coarse fjord]

bruh fr

im trying to skip school on tues

[gusty siren]

texas get snow?

[eternal jasper]

texas when there is half an inch of snow:

[coarse fjord]

if it freezes

we cant drive!

so no school!

[eternal jasper]

i've had one half of a snow day in my entire life and it's because the snow plows could not reach the school parking lot lmao

[gusty siren]

texas weak

i wanna go to mit for their best lab

the puppy lab

[eternal jasper]

damn that's one more reason to want to go to mit

[coarse fjord]

PUPPY LAB

????

[gusty siren]

yes

best lab fr

[coarse fjord]

omg wtf

this looks so fire

SO CUTE OMG

[eternal jasper]

i want so badly

[autumn bison]

name suddenly turns purple 5 min later

[coarse fjord]

wait huh i dont get it

[autumn bison]

purple for committed ppl iirc

commit bc of the zawg lab.

[eternal jasper]

zawg

[autumn bison]

zawg

[gusty siren]

zawg

[eternal jasper]

put your zawgs away

[autumn bison]

zawggers

https://tenor.com/8kQd.gif

[coarse fjord]

OHHH LOL

[eternal jasper]

guys i am literally watching a conspiracy theory video about cloudy with a chance of meatballs help

why does it make sense

[coarse fjord]

yo send

[eternal jasper]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HcceTX-IzdI

it keeps getting crazier

[coarse fjord]

LOLL

[autumn bison]

25 minutes

you are watching

[gusty siren]

should i spend $90

on a lego set

[autumn bison]

a 25 min cloudy with a chance of meatballs conspiracy

YES

[gusty siren]

is this a good financial decision

Its the chinese ny dragon set

[eternal jasper]

yes and i am almost done

[autumn bison]

based

[autumn bison]

does it make you happy

and can you afford it

[coarse fjord]

YES

OMG

IT SEEMS COOL

[gusty siren]

um

im not sure to both of those questions 💀

[eternal jasper]

legos make me happy

but the prices make me sad

[coarse fjord]

wait sned pic

s

zz

z

sz

[gusty siren]

theyre like contradicting against one another

like the set would make me happy but the price 💀

[autumn bison]

💀

simple solution

[gusty siren]

i dont have perms 💀

[autumn bison]

do not pay for the set

just take it

[gusty siren]

smart

[coarse fjord]

LMFAO

newbie

[autumn bison]

solution

[eternal jasper]

true

just 3d print every piece

[coarse fjord]

wait

[autumn bison]

YHOOOO

[coarse fjord]

this?

[gusty siren]

i can use my printer 🤩

[autumn bison]

BUY THAT SHIT

WTF

[gusty siren]

yes

[coarse fjord]

YEAH IT'S SO FIRE

[autumn bison]

THAT'S SO LIT

[coarse fjord]

BUY IT

WTF

but

[gusty siren]

$90 🥹

[autumn bison]

90 bucks

[coarse fjord]

u should prob make a good financial decision

so perhaps not

[autumn bison]

maybe u just

buy some construction paper for 10 bucks and build it instead

[gusty siren]

i just spent a good $556 on a 3D printer this month

I gotta chill

[autumn bison]

[eternal jasper]

guys the cloudy with a chance of meatballs theory went waayyyy off the deep end

[autumn bison]

yo what

[coarse fjord]

buy it when u get into mit

[autumn bison]

just 3d print it then

💀

[coarse fjord]

as a reward

[gusty siren]

LOL

It wont be the year of the dragon but then

idk what it would be tbh

[eternal jasper]

buy the lego death star

[gusty siren]

it would be the year of the horse

damn

[coarse fjord]

dragon is def the coolest

[gusty siren]

nah pigs on top

[eternal jasper]

what year am i hold on

[coarse fjord]

dog?

[gusty siren]

$90 for 1000+ pieces isnt bad ig

[eternal jasper]

rooster

[coarse fjord]

1k+ pieces ?????

oh joren ur old

[eternal jasper]

dog is year after

[gusty siren]

you guys are old

[eternal jasper]

i am grandpa

[coarse fjord]

ok lil kid

pay some respects to ur elders

[warped sable]

yall my interview is tomorrow

[gusty siren]

yes 🫡

[gusty siren]

good luckk

[coarse fjord]

good luck!!!

[warped sable]

thxx i'm so nervous

[eternal jasper]

have fun

[coarse fjord]

u got thissss

[eternal jasper]

fun fact of the day the population of the earth in cloudy with a chance of meatballs is five hundred quadrillion

[junior heath]

thats a lot of people

[warped sable]

just finished my interview!!

i think it went pretty well but its not gonna be very transformative towards my application or anything

good luck to everyone else!

[placid flower]

damn no interview request for me

I am pretty sure there are no alumni in my state but still

Cooked I guess

[warped sable]

if ur in a underrepresented state ur fine , it wont negatively affect u

i live in california so if i didn't get one i'd be actually cooked

[placid flower]

Yeah I am intl with very few MIT grads in the entire country

and a bootload of applicants

[warped sable]

oh ur intl

all good in that case

unless u say a slur or really hit it off with the interviewer i dont think they're that important anyways

[river sky]

Why does MIT not have like the speciality math classes like how Harvard has 55, Stanford has 60cm/dm, Princeton's 217, etc.

even UMich, Cornell, and Columbia have similar classes iirc

and yale

[green oyster]

mit expects you to already be specialized 💀

nah im jk idk

just a guess

[river sky]

it does have like theoretical/practical tracks for all of the intro classes tho

like caltech

[opal holly]

216-218* at Princeton

215-217 is analogous to math 25 at Harvard for reference, while 216-218 is a three semester sequence in two semesters (not as much content as Harvard’s 55 series though)

[river sky]

oh yeah

mb

[green oyster]

did anyone here apply to mit under BME or EE

if so please tell me what you felt like helped you most in your application 😄

[junior heath]

i did ee

[junior heath]

no clue wdym by this

[green oyster]

like your strongest EC/award, general stats stuff like that

and any advice would also be helpful C:

[junior heath]

either robotics (17th in world out of over 50k) or paper published at spie photonics west (world's largest optics conf.)
gpa 3.8 (bc of freshman year, 1 b+ in soph/junior) 34 act (35m/34e/33s/33r)
my stats arent great

[junior heath]

umm

this is hard to give without any direction

[green oyster]

so academics wise id say my stats r good, its just my ECs r lacking because i only have leadership positions and rly nothing else

maybe some volunteer

[junior heath]

whatre you planning on applying as?

• what ecs do you have that relate to your major (not necessary but good)

[green oyster]

im applying as BME or EE, my ecs r that im on engineering, physics, and bio team (i dont really have any awards or like impressive ECs lol)

and i have 4 leadership positions but none of them are particularly stem related

its mostly volunteer and general interests

[junior heath]

howre your test scores (important for the institute of technolgy in massachusetts)

[green oyster]

75th percentile

[junior heath]

4 is a lot

[junior heath]

75th percentile at masstech or overall

[green oyster]

1570

[junior heath]

okay cool
what breakdown?

[green oyster]

770/800

[junior heath]

800m?

[green oyster]

ye

[junior heath]

damn youre set in that department

congrats

[green oyster]

lmao thanks

[junior heath]

so you still have the 2nd half of this year and the summer before you start to apply

[modern lava]

MassTech moment

[junior heath]

rn id be thinking of essay ideas and writing down anything you think could make a good story
and make very good use of your summers - internships? projects? anything really
you cant really change your ecs very much now, but show that you pushed yourself as much as possible in them

[junior heath]

so true

[green oyster]

ye alright thanks

at this point im just looking for some summer programs and maybe some more research

[junior heath]

more research? what do you have currently

[green oyster]

possibly start a little "passion project"

[junior heath]

about what

[green oyster]

uhhh i just did like some precollege programs over the last summer and some "research" for this health immersion program

the precollege programs were at UCs

[junior heath]

you should

https://mitadmissions.org/blogs/entry/applying_sideways/

read this

[modern lava]

Simply draw Tim the Beaver x John Harvard fanfictions

[junior heath]

oats

stop talking

what the fuck

un-say that sentence

[green oyster]

i agree where tf did that come from

[modern lava]

MIT's website https://rgabriel.scripts.mit.edu/cursed.htm

[junior heath]

https://tenor.com/view/funny-emo-wolf-werewolf-transform-gif-27196401

[modern lava]

I ain't ever stopping with this

It's too funny

[junior heath]

idea

create your own fanfiction

involving a different mascot

[green oyster]

"even more excited then when i won gold at IMO 4 times"

[junior heath]

what 💀

[junior heath]

oh

[green oyster]

ok im ngl this shit is hilarious

[junior heath]

i did not in fact click on the link

[cedar hornet]

idk bro

u can do everything right and get rejected from mit

[junior heath]

yeah

its mit

[cedar hornet]

it doesnt even matter just try to minmax ur application

[junior heath]

application maxxing

[cedar hornet]

just minmax everything and then ur at ur best shot

[green oyster]

college maxxing frfr

[modern lava]

Minmaxxing applications 💀

[cedar hornet]

best way to think about it imo

[modern lava]

Max ecs, min sleep 🔥

[junior heath]

how about you go minmax some bitches

[modern lava]

💀

[modern lava]

So real

[cedar hornet]

its like looksmaxxing

u dont know hwo hot ur gonna get

[junior heath]

average a2c profile

[cedar hornet]

u just do the shit

and hope that its gonna work out

[green oyster]

i have min ecs and min sleep